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Roughness

noun

A texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven. Synonym: raggedness.

The quality of being unpleasant (harsh or rough or grating) to the senses. Synonym: harshness.

An unpolished unrefined quality. Synonym: crudeness.

Used of the sea during inclement or stormy weather. Synonyms: choppiness, rough water.

Rowdy behavior. Synonyms: disorderliness, rowdiness, rowdyism.

The formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion. Synonyms: indentation, pitting.

Harsh or severe speech or behavior. "The roughness of her voice was a signal to keep quiet"

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"Roughness" Quotes from Famous Books

... wall of huge rough blocks of stone, presenting a great contrast to the dressed slabs of which the inner walls are formed. They are placed alternately with their broad faces and their narrow edges outwards. The roughness of this enclosure wall gives the structure a remarkably wild and craggy appearance from a distance. The northern half of Mnaidra is clearly ...

— Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders • T. Eric Peet

... white wings gleamed in the sun, as they scattered away in radii from the central and sacred point, some north, some east, and some veering south around Holy Island. Sergius and Herrmann gave them smooth seas, and light, favorable airs; for the least roughness would have carried them, overladen as they were, to the bottom. Once more the bells of Valaam chimed farewell, and we turned the point to the westward, steering ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 13, No. 79, May, 1864 • Various

... continuous bombardment from one thousand German guns. It was a city of the dead. The military authorities of the Allies told the civilians they must leave. They had to go, there was no alternative. The liberation they had hoped for was in sight, but their road to it was of a roughness unspeakable. ...

— Private Peat • Harold R. Peat

... the very edge of the abyss there was scarcely a handhold. Possibly in floods the waters may have swept the wall in a curve, smoothing down the inner part and leaving the outer to its natural roughness. There was one place where I had to hang on by a very narrow crack while I scraped with the axe a hollow for my right foot. And then about twelve feet from the ground I struck the first of ...

— Prester John • John Buchan

... knew would delight the company. Reformer as Mrs. Lee was, and a little alarmed at the roughness of Ratcliffe's treatment, she could not blame the Prairie Giant, as she ought, who, after knocking poor French down, rolled him over ...

— Democracy An American Novel • Henry Adams

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